Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
BIG FLOODS.
A Large Area in the Suburbs Of Chicago
Under Water-About 100000
Damages at Lyons, Mich.
Many Towns Threatened In Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Ohio-The
Worst Not Over
LIE MICHIGAN FLOODS

LIN FNiShibA-N FLUIDS.
LYONS, MICH, Feb. II The food here
is simply terrible. A panic has seized
TIE people and it Is impossible to esti-
mate the losses. The water Is four feet
deep in many residences. Up to last
night three buildings had been washed
away and demolished. Many others are
badly damaged. Alexander McFarland's
family are sick and are cut off from as
sistance.
At Muir the same serious conditions
prevail and the MERCHANTS have abandoned
their stores.
Specials from other points are TO the
same effect, but Lyons seem. to be the
worst sufferer.
Fred Winters of Charlotte was drowned
while trying to cross Thornspple river.
THE SITUATION WORSE AT LYONS.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. ll.-At Lyons a
slight abatement of the food Was noticed
last night, but it is in all its force this
morning. Rain fell ia torrents until
about midnight, when it changed to snow,
and by daylight fully eight inches of
snow had fallen. There is a regular
northeaster with a twenty mile wind.
The water has risen two feet in the last
four hours and is still rising The peo-
pie are worn out working night and day
to save their property. Maple aud Grand
rivers unite here, and both are raging.
Should the Lansing ice reach here before
the gorge gives way all the business
places on the north side OF Main street
will re washed away. a rough estimate
Of the damage makes the aggregate be
tween $1,000 and 100000.
FROM OTHER MICHIGAN TOWNS.
DETROIT, MICH, Feb. II. - Three
Rivers is surrounded with water. All the
shops have been closed at that point. The
| Immense lumber piles there are atioat.
The Lake Shore track is in great danger
of being washed away.
At Monroe the river has been rising
slowly for the past twenty four hours,
/ but the ice has broken, giving passage
| to the lake. The banks Of the river are
| lined with walls of ice and frozen snow,
! rising eight or ten feet above the present
| high water mark.
| At Jackson the pressure of the water in
Grand river in the mill-pond above the
city was too great, aud lsSt night the
/ sluices were opened, with the result that
the water rose several feet, snd the Grand
Trunk bridge is now under water. The
cellars in the business blocks in the cen
ter Of the town are all flooded.
IN INDIANA AND OHIO.
| FORT WAYNE, IND., Feb. 1.-The
Miami, St. Joseph and St. Mary's rivers
rose five feet last night and the food
| now threatens to surpasS the memorable
one four years ego. A number OF families
! residing IN the lower district of the city
/ have removed to the upper stories OF
/ their residences or have abandoned them
altogether. At the river points between
| Fort WAYNE and Toledo great distress IS
reported. Many factories have shut
down and The employees have been
| put to work surrounding the works by
| dykes. The water is now within foot
| Of the floors of the principal bridges and
/ they must shortly be cut off from COM
munication by wagon roads from the
north. The river is now rising six inches
/ al hour and rain is falling.
THE CHICAGO FLOODS.
| CHICAGO, IL, Feb. 1.-THE local
foods to-day have not materially changed.
In the southwest district the river was
rising slowly, and the surrounding terri
| tory was heavily inundated. The cellars
| of houses in the southwest that were
flooded are worse of to-day than yester
day, the surface water of the heavy rain
of last night having poured in upon the
overflow. Considerable damage to
property is reported on Blue Island
| avenue from Eighteenth street to West
ern avenue, and on the cross streets ad-
iacent to the river banks. The overflow
at the docks of the Mccormack factory
this morning measured little over three
/ feet, but it did not prevent the running
of the factory.
| The situation in the northwest section
| is more hopeful. The rain was less gen
| eral there, and the river was falling, still
there were large areas covered with
| water.